Spotlight?
umm I hear I was on The Hour Wed. night… The only time I missed seeing the show completely because of that Stupid liberal convention!
George was commenting on comments me and lauren left on his myspace page… so there you go. My picture can be found there…
All I can say is I love your blog!

For you bigwig execs out there: Bring back the Urban Peasant! That’s children’s programming at his best, with James Barber insisting to put butter into just about everything.

PS: Like Kempton, I’ve tried to provide a more recent and useful photo, and I hope it comes in handy for you.

Thanks for profiling us. I feel honoured to be profiled with the other Most Frequent Contributors to this blog here. Although the really big photo of me makes me hope that you will get my last email really soon. I have provided a smaller version of my photo and a condensed & cleaned up version of the text.

I love CBC. My TV is practically glued to CBC Newsworld but I have to disagree with you that the CBC program producers should aim their programming at us. For one thing, die-hard CBC fans make up a good audience base but there is a much bigger group of people who watch CBC but aren’t die-hard CBC fans. Therefore while it is important to program with die-hard fans in mind, it is definitely more important to cater to the wider audience at the same time.

Now, IMHO, the value of our comments as frequent contributors is that we create a conversation and a dialogue where CBC executives (from junior executives all the way up to the top CBC senior management team) can see what people are thinking, what our concerns are, and hear some of our suggested solutions. The solutions may not be the best but it is worthwhile to read and to understand the reasonings. And I maintain as I previously said, CBC executives should join in the conversations and dialogues by starting to comment on blog entries.

Of course, the obvious concern in every CBC executives’ mind is that “It is too risky to open my mouth. I may get fired for saying the wrong thing so why should I comment?” or “Oh, the news media (Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, etcl) will spin my comments the wrong way.” To address this concern, I suggest checking out the blog of Richard Sambrook, Director of BBC Global News, and see how Richard has done it.
http://sambrook.typepad.com/sacredfacts/

I love to learn by examples. And learning from what our friends at BBC are doing is certainly a great way to start. Richard is a very nice gentleman and if he is willing to correspond with me, Mr. nobody Kempton, then I am sure Richard and our friends at BBC will be very willing to help anyone that actually works for CBC.

In the new media age where people’s attention is severely limited, we have a “Clear and Present Danger”, it is up to someone at CBC to do something. I think it should start at the top level senior managers, but as long as the dialogues and conversations are started, I am less concerned as to where and by whom.

As usual, my comments are too long, too harsh, and may be even unrealistic. But sometimes it takes an outsider to think outside the box, to think and suggest the impossible.

Cheers,
Kempton

P.S. To end on a light note. Everyone hates long line up at Disney’s theme park, right? Well, Disney “solved “the problem a little bit by redesigning the line-up area to include fun things for people to watch and see while they wait. For example, in 2004, one of their consultants was toying with “a Terminator-like skeleton of a forty-foot dinosaur”. Pretty smart “solution” for an “impossible” problem.

I do of course have a CBC beef (organic, free range)…it’s called ‘what about that Mercer guy?’. Sure, he’s funny, very funny. But he’s in the Canadian Blog Awards , just like ‘Inside the CBC’. So what’s with that…you guys are like the giants and us little guys, well, I want my mommy.

http://cba.myblahg.com . Harper Valley is in three categories, ‘best new blog’, ‘best humour’, ‘best blog post series (if only they were normal)’. Voting ends friday night.

Mercer gets Juno’s….Harper Valley will get an icon saying ‘CBA Winner’. Mercer gets to travel the world…Harper Valley gets to drive to the grocery store. http://harpervalley.wordpress.com

And if you really want to see why you should vote Harper Valley, go here, to the video: http://blogofhavril.blogspot.com/

Come on, give the little guy a chance! Damn Mercer’s funny…but us little guy’s don’t have the CBC.

I hope Kempton, Phillip and Dwight will vote Harper Valley….they could win an all expense paid trip to the grocery store ….keep contributin guys, we need the voice of the everyday citizen…that’s what blogging’s all about, where you can contribute.

(did i blow it…is everyone going to vote Mercer instead of me?)